Four years ago, as the semiconductor industry process technology crossed below 193 nanometers, the number of transistors available to a design team made it necessary to explore new design methods at a ...
SAN FRANCISCO — The IEEE Wednesday (Nov. 8) said it has approved standards for hardware description languages SystemVerilog and Verilog. The Verilog standard, IEEE 1364-2005, is a revision to the ...
This document discusses Random constraint-based verification and explains how random verification can complement the directed verification for the generic designs. In our case this is demonstrated by ...
Adoption of transaction level modeling and the necessary tools for debugging and analysis has been slower than would be expected from growing SOC design sizes and complexities. This paper discusses ...
A sure sign that a design language is making its way into the mainstream is the appearance of a spate of tools supporting it. For SystemVerilog devotees, the latest good news is the commercial ...
System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...
About 16 months ago, in the February 2001 Linux Journal [see www.linuxjournal.com/article/4428], we reviewed the state of open source in electronic design automation ...
Survey hardware design teams and you’ll find that the old saw is true: anywhere from 60% to 80% of the overall design cycle is consumed not with design itself, but rather with the nerve-wracking ...
Hundreds of variations of open-source CPUs written in an HDL seem to float around the internet these days (and that’s a great thing). Many are RISC-V, an open-source instruction set (ISA), and are ...